---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-21-016414"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PETS"
cik: "0001040130"
company_name: "PETMED EXPRESS INC"
filed_at: "2021-07-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-30T07:06:36.529463+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# PetMed Express appoints CFO Bruce Rosenbloom as interim CEO following Menderes Akdag's departure

## Summary
- CEO Menderes Akdag's employment contract ends July 30, 2021; Board decided not to extend.
- CFO Bruce Rosenbloom appointed Interim CEO and President effective July 31, 2021; he remains CFO.
- Rosenbloom receives additional $10,000/month cash stipend for interim CEO duties.
- Board expects to appoint permanent CEO within ~3 months (by Oct 31, 2021).
- No new severance arrangement; Rosenbloom's existing change-of-control severance unchanged.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-21-016414
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PETS
- cik: 0001040130
- company_name: PETMED EXPRESS INC
- filed_at: 2021-07-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1040130/000143774921016414/0001437749-21-016414-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1040130/000143774921016414/pets20210705_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-21-016414.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Bruce S. Rosenbloom was appointed as Interim Chief Executive Officer and President at PETMED EXPRESS INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Interim Chief Executive Officer and President
  source text: the Board appointed Bruce S. Rosenbloom, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, as Interim Chief Executive Officer (principal executive officer) and President of the Company, effective upon Mr. Akdag’s departure
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1040130/000143774921016414/0001437749-21-016414-index.htm
- Executive change
  Menderes Akdag departed as President and Chief Executive Officer at PETMED EXPRESS INC.
  - Action: not extended
  - Role: President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: the Company will not extend Mr. Akdag’s employment agreement with the Company and that the employment agreement would therefore end on July 30, 2021
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1040130/000143774921016414/0001437749-21-016414-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.